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SpyTalk, a podcast at the intersection of intelligence, foreign policy,

national security, and military operations with Jeff Stein and Jean Miserve.

Hi again, I'm Jeff Stein.

And I'm Jean Miserve, welcome to another episode of SpyTalk.

It's plenty going on in the spy world this week,

including the opening of yet another James Bond film.

The last one, starring a moody Daniel Craig.

I talked with James Grady, author of the books

that gave us the iconic thriller Three Days of the Condor,

about the influence of Bond books and movies on him

and other spy writers of this generation.

Well, the funny thing was, I grew up loving the James Bond novels

and the Sean Connery films.

I mean, how could you not love the scene where Ursula Andress walks out of the ocean

in her white bikini, and our hero gets a chance to meet her

and everything works out emotionally for the two of them?

My approach when it came to writing Conner was I knew

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